The purpose of this library is to provide an extremely lightweight Objective-C Cocoa interface to BSD sockets.

Other such libraries exist, such as The Omni Group's excellent OmniNetworking framework. However, OmniNetworking may be more overhead than you want if you are not using the remainder of the Omni Frameworks.

The goal of SmallSockets is to provide a complete and robust sockets wrapper in as few files as practical, with no dependencies on anything other than what comes on the Mac OS X Developer CD.

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